Proverbs 2:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
  • Jer 13:23 : 23 Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.
  • Hos 4:14 : 14 I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.
  • Matt 19:24-26 : 24 And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God. 25 And the disciples, hearing this, were greatly surprised, saying, Who then may have salvation? 26 And Jesus, looking at them, said, With men this is not possible; but with God all things are possible.
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

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    15Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

    16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

    17Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

    18For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

  • Prov 5:4-6
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    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

    5Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

    6She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

  • Prov 2:20
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    20So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

    26For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

    27Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

  • Prov 5:8-9
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    8Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

    9For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

  • Prov 4:13-15
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    13Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

    14Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

    15Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    17Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

    18She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

  • Prov 21:16
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    16The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

  • Job 6:18
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    18The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

  • Prov 15:24
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    24Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

  • Job 7:10
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    10He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • Prov 2:13
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    13Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

  • Prov 14:12
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    12There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

  • Prov 9:15-16
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    15Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

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  • Prov 12:28
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    28In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

  • Hos 2:6-7
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    6For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

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  • Prov 7:22
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    22The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

  • Prov 7:8
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    25There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

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    26For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

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    19So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.

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    17The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

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    11She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

    12Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

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    19He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

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    21For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

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    22For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

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    32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!